Artifact Details

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Date

Contributor

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Identifying Numbers

Other number

OHP 136

Extent

32 p.

Description

At Bell Laboratories in 1977, Ken Thompson (best known as the co-creator of the Unix operating system) and Joe Condon designed and built Belle, a dedicated chess-playing machine connected to a minicomputer. Belle's custom hardware and endgame database revolutionized computer chess.